Chuka is the Labour parliamentary candidate for the Streatham Constituency in South London and has been working with techPolitics since the very start of his campaign to be selected. Chuka's blog style website keeps residents informed of his work and positions. The site runs in
Wordpress and uses
phplist for the newsletter functions.
Visit the site:
www.streathamlabour.org.uk
The best web politics campaign even conducted in Luxembourg?
Christophe is a candidate for the LSAP party (social democrats) in the Luxembourg national elections in June 2009. He wanted a site with a blog format where he could express his views, and link to his presence on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. As ever
Wordpress was the technical solution.
Visit the site:
www.christopheschiltz.lu
How do you adapt an academic journal for the web? This is the question that has been posed by the staff running the Social Europe Journal from London Metropolitan University. Previously a website and a blog were used, but with the relaunch of the site in March 2009 both functions have been combined - a PDF journal to download, but all journal articles in text format inviting visitors to comment. Powered by
Wordpress.
Visit the site:
www.social-europe.eu
Åsa is a member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Social Democrats and is a candidate for re-election in 2009. For the election campaign she needed a re-designed blog that would also draw on content from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc. We delivered a site powered by
Wordpress to a tight timetable.
Visit the site:
www.asawestlund.se/blogg
Paul Blomfield is Labour PPC in the Sheffield Central constituency. The website we built for Paul, powered by
Typo3, showcases the work he is doing locally. It features polls, news, a photo gallery and a newsletter system.
Visit the site:
www.paulblomfield.co.uk
Much has been written everywhere about the Obama campaign and how it has set new standards in campaigning. Most of this writing has probably been online while it has possibly also looked mostly at the online elements of it. The most quoted contributor here is BlueStateDigital, the US firm that helped build Obama’s (primary) fundraising and social networking capacities. Less known about BlueStateDigital is (more…)
